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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
C msals mmd Criticisms Baaed Cpoa the
Happeatns of tlx Day Historical and
Mews u.
Cincinnati has a baby show, but
no one seemes to be able to decide
whether it is a howling success or a
crying eviL
A white man found guilty of mur
der by a Kentucky jury has just been
sentenced to ninety nine years' im
prisonment in the penitentiary.
OsE of the bills t epeal the
standard time law has been permit
ted to die, and we have no doubt
that Old Sol will continuj to play
second fiddle to the railroad corpora
lions. A loving heart carries with it,
under every parallel of latitude, the
warmth and light of the tropics. It
plants its Eden in tte wilderness and
solitary pla e, and sows w.th flowers
the era.' deflation of rocks and
mosses.
JL'RTKE 13 RAD WELL Ot Uh:0, WiS
attacked by a couple of footpads
recently, omj of whom hit biru
with a piece of gaspipe. He floored
one with a rii?ht-hander and the other
with a left-hander and knocked them
both out. Mr. liradwell has won an
enviable reputation for dealing out
even-handed justice.
Now and then one meets with an
exceptional case in which energy
seems to have been entirely omitted
in the moral "make-up" of the indi
vidual: but human beings totally de
void of this element of worldly suc
cess are about as rare as brawnless
living skeletons. Given a single
spark of t nergy, it may be unques
tionably increased and utilized by
cultivation.
The faith cure was tried in Eliza
teth, H. J., a few days ago under
the most favorable conditions, the
nurse and doctor being entirely ex
cluded from the presence of the pa
tient The faith healer tokabaly
from its mother, who was ill in bed,
and pranced about the room, hoding
the baby high in air an I shouting:
"Hallelujah, hallelujah; Jehovah is
King!" The mother's death is at
tributed chiefly to excitement; the
baby's to exposure.
He who is open as the day, who
nas nothing wn cn ne cares to con
ceal, is pretty sure to have come by
his possessions honorably. They
stand for earnest honest labor of head
or of hand, such as helps and never
hurts mankind. They are the signs
of his energy, his industry, his econ
omy, his faithfulness his ability.
They reflect honor upon him: whereas
gains secured without such equiva
lent and at the expanse of others can
only reflect disgrace.
New York is talking of creating
a Hate forest reservation or park in
the Adirondack Mountains which
shall include 2,no7,7'50 acres, oraiout
4, 38fi square miles. Every lover of
nature will hope, wherever he may
live, lhat this project will be speedily
and fully carried into execution. It
would be a lasting source of benefit
to the entire country to have such a
magnificent tract of mountains,
lakes, and forests preserved from the
ravages of the lumlierman's ax and
the settler's more destructive tires.
John R. Akbtxkle, the million
aire coffee dealer of New York, has
been sued for 2:',000 by a man who
claims to have been wronged in a
horse ranch trade. This is nothing,
however, In comparison with the suit
which Bunny" Campbell, sweet
thirty-seven or thereabouts, brought
against "Kaby Lunting" Arbuckle a
few years ago lor trifling with her
mature afTections. Love letter were
read la c urt in that case which
would make the ordinary hardships
of trials seem of little account to any
man.
A hokkible dis losure has been
madi In Biskupitz, Austria, by the
.arrestof aganof men who for some
time have been engaged in crippling
Children for the begging trade. Sev
eral unfortur ate children were found
in the bouse with their legs and arms
broken and bound in positions of de
formity. One little girl had both
eye gouged out. Instruments which
bad been used in produc ng physical
deformities were discovered in the
cellar. After the children (who had
been stolen) were sufficiently de
formed, they were sold to other per
sons for beggiDg purposes.
It Ii agreeable to observe that the
Washington Post thinks that Charles
Eoyt should bi encouraged to go on
writing fane which make the world
jollier rather tbao persuaded to do
fjioit that dismal and ooo-deeeript
r-rttof hie A KJdBfcnt Bell."
n jT;dH wit aaeoataaoa vfo
CJt 'iO la fectte I 6 aMcter of
to be a bungling Journeyman In
pathos. As for elevating the stage
and all that sort of thing, let him be
content with having done his part in
redeeming it from dullness. He is
easily first in the domain be has made
his own. Let him stay and reign
there."
A Bkooklyx merchant has in
vented a new device for advertising
his goods '-He has equipped a big
Newfoundland dog with sandwi h
boards and turned it iooe to wander
at will about the city streets. The
dog is unusually large and handsome.
Fastened on its back is a white oil
skin coat, fashioned like an ordinary
dog blanket, except that it is so long
as to almost sweep the gr mnd, and
f ainted theron, in vivid colors, is an
advertisement of the dog's owner.
The dog seetus to know his business,
too, for he spends most of his time
trotting up and down the shopping
district of Fulton street, where the
crowds are thickest.
The terrible accident at Fall River
by which three young men lost their
1 ves affords one more argument In
favor of the abolition of grade cross
ings. Such arguments should not be
nece-sary, but the public is slow n
mov ng to protect itself. Whether
or not the accident was caused by the
negligence of the crossing tender,
who failed to lower the gates that
does not lessen the Itu; ortaoce of
abolishing the grade crossings. So
long as the railroads are allowed to
cross highways at grade such latali
ties will occur. The only thing to
do is to separate the grades. It Is
for the advantage or the railroad
companies as well as for the public
that tb s be done.
A ghastly drama took place re
cently in the forest of Gremllly, near
Bar-le Due, France. A middle-aged
man named Per gnon fell madly in
love with Marie Angele Liego s, the
17-year-old daughter of a woodcutter.
He asked ber to marry h m, but she
steadfastly refused; whereupon he
went one day with a double-barreled
gun in his hand to her father's hut
in the forest and shot her dead.
Turning his weapon toward the
mother he also killed her and then
tried to blow out his own bra ns with
a revolver. Liegois, the woodcutter,
and his son now arrived and tried to
seize the murderer, but Perignon es
caped from them, dashed through the
woods and drowned himself in a pond.
A Ginx's baby case is on the hands
of the federal authorities. An ialot
girl came in on the steamship Bohe
mia at Boston. She slipped through
in violation of the law forbidding
landing of embeciles, but was fin illy
detained by an inspector for examij
nation. Her worthy kindred from
Silesia left her with the inspector
and slipped off on their western des
tination, glad, doubtless, to be rid
of the poor creature, The steamship
company ao not know where she came
from or to whom to return her. The
case is absorbing in interest and
battling V) all who have to deal wit i
it. but it is e .blent that the original
iault lies with the steamship com
pany that re elved the girl without
personal inquiry into her conditional
the port of embarkation, Hamburg.
The "old Kearsarge," wrecked on
Honcador reef was one of the oldest
vessels in the t'nited States navy,
and the name has become historic by
reason of her gallant litfbt and great
victory over the Confederate priva
teer Alabama in 18J4. The Alabama
had been one of the most destru t
ive 1, rents of th Confederacy in prey
ing upon Americen commerce while
hovering atxmt the European coast.
While the Alabama was in the port
of Cherbourg. France, June 1", 1804,
Caj.tain Wins'ow, of the Kearsarge,
gave the challenge for battle, and
the two vessels steamed out to Inter
national waters and engaged in one
of the most pictures que and decisive
naval duls on record. The Alabama
was sunk and Confederate privateer
ing was ended. Captain Semmes and
other oillcers of the Alabama w?re
picked up by the English yacht Grey
hound after they had surrendered to
Captain W'insi-jw, and they " made
their escape, which came near in
volving England in a war with this
country. The Kearsarge was one of
the best acd fastest vessels In the old
wooden navy, but since the modern
navy was Puilt she has been desig
nated as "the Old Kearsarge," and
has been on coast duty. When the
wreck occurred she was on her way to
Nicaragua to protc t Ame-ican in
terests there in view of the invasion
of the military forces of Honduras.
The loss to the Government may be
regarded as comparatively small be
cause of the wonderful improvements
made in naval vessels since the Kear
sarge was built, but this wreck ends
the career of one of the .nost famous
eeaela that ever had a place In the
navy.
A nam year la like new babf
pcomWof, fcst ear to Imcosm troUe-
HOME AND THE FARM.
DEPARTMENT MADE UP
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
FOB
The Breedlnf of Draft Horses Is froflta
bla fiiutinws- Kork fhosphata Better
Than Thai Made from Boas How to
Thin fruit.
Draft-Hone Hreedlnc Pays.
Iraft horses can be raised and pre
pared for the market with less outlay
of labor and capital, says a writer in
the 1-arni and Home, than any other
breed The servi es of the very best
stallions will cost from tl'i to $25.
The colls can be left in the stable
and halter-broken, while the dam
can do light farm-work; they can be
turned loose in a shed or a stable
the tlrt and second winters wl'h
very little risk of blemishes. With
oats and bran twice a day and plenty
of good fodder and hay, they will be
In splendid coudit on for gras. At
tw't years old they will be large
enough lor farm work.
The fillies can I bred at this age
and will therea:ter pay their way.
When four or five years old they are
ready foi market and will bring I 5m"
to ?25u according to w ight and
(juality. In training they re u re no
costly outHt of sulkies, harness,
blankets, bo ts. ana te-weights;they
re jnire no t.ncup records: pools are
never sold and Iook-makers are un
known in draft-horse breed ng. Why
is it that farmers and small breeders
will persist in losing their money,
and common sense generallj, in a vain
endeavor to produce race trotters?
No otl.er breed has ever attempted
to sui plant the dralt horse because
all others lack power and weight
the important points to 1 considered.
Jn all the large cities good draft
hh ,o.. a
Hecords of the Chicago hor-.e market
show that draft teams weighing from
:i,uo to.'i, ' oo lbs. bring ou to ."uo.
In the large cities the heavy traffic
requires big draft teams todraw loads
of four or five tons, and on the hard
pavements the best horses are short
lived when worked constantly. Quick
walking draft teams are wante l on
the farms and heavy teams are needed
in the lumber regions.
For what other breed does the de
mand c me from so many sources?
I)o not breed with the Idea that a
draft hore will do for a general-purpose
animal on the farm; better say a
special-purpose horse. Veu for the
special-purpose horse there is a de
mand from city and country, and not
from the race track alone, as in the
case with trotters. Among the
breeds to select from are the I lydes
dale, English hire. Percheron. Bel
gian, and French Draft, good repre
sentatives of which can 1 found In
most parts of the country. The best
pure-bred mares can be bought tor
$:io0 to uu; stallbms cost from 1,
000 to t:,0Qi. Finally, let one rule
follow throughout all efforts in breed
ing. If it is dra t horses one is after,
raise draft horses exclusively, and
let every other breed serverely alone.
Follow busine s principles and breed
carefully and there is money in it.
Thinn nit fruit.
Though the soil be rich, the tree
vigorous, the pruning judicious,
thinning is nevertheless required to i
secure good, marketable sizes of most j
orchard fruits. This fact was over- j
looked for many years in California, I
probably beeause, with young trees !
and rich soil, the fruits, though most
thick' set on the trees, were larger '
than the growers, rememliering East- J
ern standards of s!e, expected. Then, j
too, thinning necessitated an amount
of close work which the California j
disliked to assume. It was only the
commercial aigument which forced j
most growers to resort to thinning.
IT the San Francisco market alone
had been concerned systematic Ihiu-
ning would have made slow progress
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uu tuC .miau.ve uvumuu u. iub
canners anu uie ouyers lor r.asiern
shipment lorced growers to the irk
some and expensive work of lessen
ing the burden of the trees. Those
who still resist these demands and
conclude to ship their own fruit to
test the question of size soon found
lhat ungraded or small fruit did not
pay for boxes ai.d freight, while
good-sized uniform lots yielded
a !
good profit Thinning, when the
tree is overloaded, has therefore be
come the accepted way to get satis
factory produce and, in many cases,
the key to successful production.
Ilia! to Orange Grower.
Profitable Windbreaks.
Occasionally one sees a row of trees
around the edge of an orchard said to
be planted for a windbreak. These
are sometimes eucalyptus, sometimes
cyprus, or other eve greens, and
sometimes even black walnut or
some other deciduous trees. We have
wondered why. Any of the.se trees
cost as much to plant and grow as so
many fruit trees, and they take more
substance out of the ground; In fact,
the next row of trees are generally
stunted. iNow if one fancy an evei
green, the olive is a good tree, and
the fruit of a row of trees around
twenty acres would produce a great
deal of oil. They m'uht first be
1 lan ted ten feet apart, ar.d we would
have nearly 4ht trees around
twenty acres, and when half were
cut out there would still be trees
enough for two acres of land julte
an olive orchard. If ao evergreen Is
not the fancy, what is better than
the fig? It groi fast a :d makes an
excellent w'nd break. It will grow
with hut littie cultivation, and could
te planted along the road outside the
orchard, and thus a portion of the
orchard land could l saved, and a
dollar a tree claimed from the county
under the law. If, therefore, the
fanny ta to have the orchard belted
around with some other kind of tree,
ptaat soum fruit tree. There la ao
In anythinc else." Colua
bun.
Threshlnc Cora fodour.
As a number of your "famil)" have
given their experiences pro and con
with cutting corn fodder I wish to
give a method that has all the good
iUalities of cutting and by which
some of the bad results are avoided
Instead of using an expensive cutter,
use an old threshing machine (it
won't hurt a new ne . lUmove all
hut one set of concaves and you will
be surpied at the amount of sulks
that can be run through in an hour.
In this manner the stalks are nicely
shredded, and none of the sharp ends
can be found to which the death of
many cattle has been traced. All
that the sto k leave makes as good
bedding and aUorbent as cut stalks.
The carrier elevates them Into the
mow, and a given space will bold
twice as much as it will before iing
shredded, as the fodder packs in so
tightly it is uecessary that the stalks
be thoroughly dry or the mass will
beat and mold. A load of straw
mixed in will assist in taking up the
surplus moisture. The stalks go
mueh further than when fed whole,
and the refuse is more easily handled.
National t-tockoian.
Rork l'hotphate.
The idea that what Is called rock
phosphate is of less value than that
from hone is quite general among
farmers. If the bone were ground lu
a raw state aud then reduced to pow.
der by use of sulphuric acid, it would
surely le more valuable, for it would
have, in addition to tbosphate 0f
lime, a considerable proiiortlon of
highly available nitrogen.
In fact, however, practically all
the bone phosphate made now has
first teen burned. It is used as
burned bone for redoing sugar, and
after it has served th's purpose all Its
i nitrogen has be taken from it. If
there are diffe etices ltween differ
ent brands of phosphate, it is more
likely due to the character of the
nitrog. n that is put with them to
make them more available.
lione phosphate, after burning, has
no more value than that from what
is called "rock," which is undoubt
edly the fossil remainsof minute ani
mals that lived in an early stage of
this planet's history.
Yoke for Carrying Kit p.
In all well-appointed sugar bushes
there are paths at frequent intervals
between the maple trees, and wide
enough for a horse with low sleigh or
stone boot to travel Thus the
greater part of the hard work carry-
j im 8aP om the trees to the central
auai ijuuac 19 uuuc wilij. otiii
there are even yet plai es where good,
sweet maple trees are to bi found,
but with soil so rough or trees so
close together that no horse and
sleigh -an be got through. For such
places a yoke to go over the neck,
with arms wide enough each side to
let the sap buckets swing clear of the
walker's legs, Is a great convenience.
The hands are still used in steadying
the buckets but the heavy weight on
the arms is iremoved, except some
times when the yoke itself becomes
oppressive, and the arms raise the
bu kets so as to relieve the pressure.
Moia .Manure for the Orchard.
Hcfore we decide why It Is that
apple trees do not bear as they Used
to, somet ing must 1x3 said about the
manure question. It is true that in
early times apple orchards bore with
out manure, but it was while the so 1
was rich in unexhausted mineral fer
tility and when the apple orchard was
heavily stocked with hogs that were
liberally fed aud made a good deal of
very rich manure. Some of the or
chards thus managed bear large crops
yet. The profit from these early
small orchards led farmers to set out
orchards five, ten, and twenty acres
In extent It is Impossible to ma
nure such large orchards by pasturing
hogs in them The orchard now
needs more manure than it used to
do a()(j u le8.J.;x
Watte Land on the Farm.
The most searching Question for
every farmer to ask himself is what
proportion of good land on his farm
goes to waste. It only needs more
capital per acre to bring up the pro
ductiveness of these waste places so
that they will eoual the best There
is always profit In good laud well
cared for. The failures In farming
invariably result from trying to cul
tivate land that has not been brought
into condition for profitable cropping,
or else irom trying to cultivate more
land than could be kept well tilled.
There is to profit froiiahalf-way
work on the farm.
Wan Afraid to Take Any IUkIc.
The mother's heart was filled with
Joy. She ga.ed. UKn her daughter
with suffused eyes.
"And It is settled at last," s!.e
asked with trembling voice, "that
you are to be married?"
A flush mantled the cheek of the
you. g girL
"Ves," she whispered.
"And did nry child," the parent
persisted, "breathe more freely when
It was ail over'"
A langorous glance was fixed on
vacancy. A pair of warm lips parted.
"No," came the reply. "I didn't
want to run anv risk of breaking the
lacings, even if wo were engaged."
It was plain that she was gifted
with a wisdom far beyond her years.
What Krupp ;ivr?a His Workmen.
During the summer season Krupp
supplies his workmen with cold coi
fee and vinegar at Intervals through
the day, and such of the men em
ployed In connection with the pud.
dllng works receive dally one-eighth
of a quart of brandy.
ArriK a man passes forty, he does
not care for eomi llmenu He is apt
to know bow foolish aud meaningless
they are.
! profit
IN A JEWISH SLUM.
Jallaa Kalph's Graphic Uesrnptloa of a
Fast Spot la Mew York.
In an Interesting artie'e contrib.
rated to Harper's Weekly Juiiac lialpb
discusses the slums of Mew York.
Across the liowerv In Orchard, Es
sex, and Ludlow streets, he says, is
the slum of the Polish Jew That is
the foulest region on Manhatten
Island, or in America. One knows
lefore going there that "Jewtown"
and "the Fig Market" cannot 1
worse than common. No one can
darken a full-blooded Guinea negro,
or brighten a bird of paradise, or cor
rupt a bad egg. It is strange - what
an education in the higher grades of
slumming the peoples of Europe are
giving us in New York. It was not
so long ago that we went to Green
wich street aud Cherry street and the
Sixth Ward to see the poor Irish, and
thought we were gett ng glimpses of
Sjualor. Then the Chinaman came
and we looked Mott street over, and
thought that foul and dirty Mott
street which is now an anteroom of
Eden compared with what came after
it Then the Italians came, begin
ning in Crosby street and gradually
building up a great colony in Mul
berry and other streets. Ah, then,
we were certain that we were seeing
European sjualor, the debris of one
of the eCete monarchies of Europe.
There could not be anything worse,
we thought
Well, the refugee Jews have come
and we know more than we did. The
I'ig Market" in Ludlow street fur
nishes their food If the latter is as
bad as it looks it is awful. It looks
to be largely rotten refuse. They say
down 'jliere the neighbors do that
when eggs are too tar gone to sell
anywhere else they are broken up.
poured into tin cans, and sold in a
liquid state rn this market They
say, also, that spoiled chickens are
taken there, split lengthwise and
sldewise with a cleaver, and sold at
5 cents a section, entrails and alL
Thee are not pretty truths, but they
need to be known. The meat the
fruit, the vegetables, all look blown
and sueckled and bad, whatever th"y
may really be. Only two articles of
diet seem to be in good condition.
Those are the geese and the loaves of
bread Nobody, not even a baker,
would believe there was In all the
world so much bread as Is to he seen
Ijoth In the Jew and in the Italian
quarters. It Is stacked up on out-of-door
shelves and count ts, as coal is
heaped In other parts of town. And
as for the geese, they are leg. on.
They keep coming Into Jewtown in
crates by the wagonload, they stand
about in crates on the pavements,
they squaw in the cellars, and they
squirm in front of you as the men
and women lug them Into the dwell
ings Faugh: what a filthy place la this
Polish Jew district Here again the
homes are so crowded that the people
rem nd vou of a fallen brick wall
whoje pieces spread all over the
ground, and can only be kepi within
bound when they are fitted together
and piled on high. Such is the case
in all these slums. Thick of there
being more than 300,ouopeoplelivlng
on a square niile, as they do in the i
Tenth Ward! They can get into the
houses only when they lie down at
night In the daytim" they Sjuee e
one another out into streets. Then
it appears that since the streets are
full the houses must be empty; but
it is not so; loth are jammed. Tho
pavements are wet with an oozing,
slimy substance, and in the roadways
you must pick your way or go up to
your shoetop'i in oliy, black, fetid
filth.
LIFE AT WINDSOR, 1888.
Kathrr Monotonous and Very Ceremonious
KxUtence of the (Jueen.
The life which the Queen leads Is
this; She gets up soon after o'clock,
breakfasts in her own room and is
employed tho whole morning In trans
acting business: she reads all the
dispatches and has every matter of
interest and imp stance in every de
partment laid before tier, says Gre
vlllc's Journal. At II or M Mcl
lourne comes to ner and stavs an
hour, more or less, according to the
business he may have to transact
At 2 she rifles with a lar'e suite (and
she likes to have ,t numerous.) Mel
bourne always lides on her left hand
and tho equerry, n-waiting generally
on her right; she rides for two hours
along the road and the greater part
of the time at lull gallop After rid-
ng hhe amuses herself the rest of the
afterno n with muic and singing,
playing, romping with children, If
there are any in the castle (and she is
so fond of them that hhe generally
contrives to have some therefor In
any other way she fancies.
The hour of diuuer is nominally
7:3u o'clock, soon after which time
the guests assemble, but she seldom
appears till near K The lord-in-waiting
comes Into the drawing room
and instructs each gentleman which
lady he is to take to dinner. When
the guests are ali assembled the
Queen comes in, preceded by the
gentlemen of her household, and fol
lowed by the Imchess of Kentand all
her ladles; she speaks to each lady,
how to the men and goes Immedi
ately Into tho dining-room. She gen
ci ally takes the arm of the man of
the highest rank, but on this occa
sion hhe went in with Mr. Stephen
son, the American Minister (though
be has no rank,) which was very
wisely done.
Melbourne Invariably sits on her
left, no matter who may be there;
she remains at table the usual time,
but docs not suffer tte men to sit too
long after her, and we were sum
moned to coffee In less than a quarter
of an hour. In the drawing-room
she never sits down till the men
make their appearance, Coffee Is
served to them Id the Ad Joining
room, and then they go luto the
drawing-room, when she goes round
and says a few words to each of the
most trivial nature, all noweter,
very civil and cordial in manner ad
expression. When this Utile cere
mony is over the Imchess of Kent's
whist table is arranged and then the
round table is marehaled, Melbourne
Invariably sitting on the left hand o'
the Queen and remains there with
out moving until the eenlng Is at
ao end.
At about 1 1:30 she goes to bed, or
whenever the Duchess has played her
usual number of rubbers and the
band has performed all the pieces on
Its list for the night This is the
whole history of her day. She orders
and regulates every deta 1 herseltshe
knows where eve yUdy is lodged in
the castle, settles about the riding or
driving, and enters every particular
with minute attention.
About Swimming.
A writer named Kobloson in the
Nineteenth Century, brings forwd
a quite plausible explanation of the
lact that, while most of the animal
creation appear to swim by lntuitbn,
man is almost alone in requiring pre
vious training to enable him to keep
his head above water. He says it Is
merely a matter of heredity, and due
to our descent from races who were
cave and rock dw -Hers and rock and
tree cimtiers. This theory dots not
neee sarily Imply Darwinism, or go so
far as to demand the llief that man
Is but a highly revised edii Ion of some
anthropoid ape. He suggests that
almost all mammlferous animals,
! when conscious of danger, use in-
stictively the means given them for
Might and esca e, which Involve
precisely the motions best calculated
to keep them al'.oat In water. The
hereditary instinct of the man. how
ever, is unfortunately, he says, to
climb out of the danger. Hence, un
less he has a natatory education, he
throws his arms at once atxtve his
head, thus increasing the weight up
on the latter, which, of course, goes
then under water.
Thus the struggles of thi untaught
human being tend to his own destruc
tion, as is well known to be the case.
It may be added that admitting
this view, we bar ourselves from any
Imputation of a batrachlan element
In our ancestry. Had there fort
unately been such, we ought to hae
found ourselves swimming instinc
tively, when plunged into deep
waters. Nevertheless, in any case,
the frog has clearly been our precep
tor, or rather our examplar In this
useful art, for man swims greatly like
a frog and by no means 'like a
duck" or like a fish " as so often
tritely phrased.
He Fitted the Description. .
A Kentucky otTlce-sceker In Wash
ington who had an Idea th.it be was
a distinguished and prominent citi
zen, when he first came, had hung
around and been disappointed until
he was In the last stages. Tnen he
thought ot home and bow to get
there and away be went after OoT.
, passenger agent of
Hall road
'I say, Colonel," he said persua
sively, "1 want to go home."
Why don't you go?" .
"Gut no money.; Can't you give
me a pass?"
The Colonel stiffened his spine.
"We ghe pa-ees to nobody," he le
pl cd (Irmly.
The face of the despairing dlsap
polntee showed a faint smile of hu
mllity. "Well, Colonel," he pleaded, 'give
me one; I'm nobody," and theColonel
lent him a special for a week.
A Ijong I'"at.
David S. Farse.ley, a farmer living
at Hernwood, second district of J'.al
tiraore County, has a beg which had
a long fast On October zn lat
when Mr. l'arsclcy's bog came up to
the pen at night one weighing about
-50 pounds was missed. Mr. 1 arso
ley supposed that It had been stolen.
On Decemler J2, forty-six days after
ward, he was cutting some timber In
his woods, when be found tho miss
ing hog lying under a tree which had
fallen down and caught it under
one of the limbs. Mr. l arseley car
ried it home in his arms, and it is
now doing wclL It is supposed the
hog was caught under the tree Octo
ber 2 and that it had nothing to eat
from that time unt.l December 12,
lialtimore Sun.
Tliat'H Nothing.
The Judge and the Colonel entered
a hall of liacchusand ranged up along
the counter
What will you have, Colonel?"
asked the Judge.
"Nothing, Judge, thanks," re
sponded the Colonel.
The barkee. er ret out a bottle and
each gentleman filled his glass to the
brim, bowed, poured It down and
walked out
Great scot," gasped a stranger,
"what do they mean by saying they'll
have nothing and then take a bath
like that?"
"Oh." reilled the barkeeper.
Ith
a shrug of Indifference, "they call
drink like that nothing," .
a
A MoiiHltive Creature.
"Are you fond of skating?" asked
the girl who was trying to te enter
taining. "No," replied the man who kicks
a tout household ex; enses.
"You miss a great deal of fun."
"Perhaps. Jtut when I think of
how much b e Is going to cost next
summer skating seems like sacrilege."
A Preference.
Little Girl Mamma, If 1 rj ed
would I lie kept on ice.
Mamma I erbaps. ,
Little Girl And could I havt
lemon Ice If 1 wanted It mamma?
"I iiavk eaten so much turkey of
late," a man said to day. - that 1 feel
as though I could sing the gobble
song."
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